What\'s the quickest way to generate a secure password in javascript?
I want it to contain at least 1 special character, and 2 mixed case. Must be at least 6 characters
You could do some thing like below to generate password with following Requirements
* At least One Special Character
* At Least on Digit
* At least on Upper Case
* At least One Lower Case
function generatePassword(passwordLength) {
var numberChars = "0123456789";
var upperChars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
var lowerChars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
var specialChars = "#?!@$%^&*-";
var allChars = numberChars + upperChars + lowerChars + specialChars;
var randPasswordArray = Array(passwordLength);
randPasswordArray[0] = numberChars;
randPasswordArray[1] = upperChars;
randPasswordArray[2] = lowerChars;
randPasswordArray[3] = specialChars;
randPasswordArray = randPasswordArray.fill(allChars, 4);
return shuffleArray(randPasswordArray.map(function(x) { return x[Math.floor(Math.random() * x.length)] })).join('');
}
function shuffleArray(array) {
for (var i = array.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1));
var temp = array[i];
array[i] = array[j];
array[j] = temp;
}
return array;
}
//Change length accordingly
alert(generatePassword(12));